End-gate for hay-racks.



J. O. JOHNSON. END GATE FOR HAY RACKS APPLICATION FILED APR. I, 1914.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D c.

' view the invention consists in the combma- JULIUS O. JOHNSON,

0F ELEVA, WISCONSIN.

END-GATE FOR HAY BIACKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

Application filed April 1, 1914. Serial No. 828,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULrUs O. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eleva, in the county of Trempealeau and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Gates for Hay-Racks, of which the following is a specification. 1

This invention relates to improvements in end gates for hay racks and its object is to produce a device of this class that is adjustable with relation to the bed of the hay rack.

Another object is to produce a device of the kind that is easily attached to any hay rack.

With the foregoing and other objects in tion and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of said specification and in which I Figure l is a perspective view of one end of a hay rack provided with my improved end gate. Fig. 2 is an end view of one of the castingsemployed by means of which the gate adjustment is effected. Fig. 3 is a side View of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail of the adjusting'rod connecting the casting and end gate. Fig. 5 is a front new of Fig. a. Fig. 6 is a side view of lower end of the hay rack standard. Fig. 7 is a side view of Fig. 6.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. 1 isthe ordinary hay rack and 2, 2 the side beams that project beyond the end of the bed of the rack. To the ends of the beams 2, 2 I secure my casting 3 which is channeled as at t to fit the beams and provided with bolts 5, 5 which extend transversely through the channel 4 and through the beams 2 to retain the casting in adjusted position. My casting, moreover, is formed Copies of this patent may be obtained for horizontal position in 6 which terminates in a head 7 at 8, 8, 8; the body of the castalso apertured as at with a neck apertured as ing below the neck is 9, 9, 9.

My end gate comprises a pair of standards 11, 11, connected by cross bars 12, and apertured as at 13. Each standard is provided with a, split pin 14 at its lower end adapted for removable insertion in any of the apertured portions 9 of the casting and a rod 15 formed with split angular terminations 16, 16 connects one of the castings 3 e to one. of the standards 11. It is readily seen that the end gate may be adjusted at almost any angle with the hay rack by the means of the casting 3 and rods 15.

The gate is illustrated in a vertical and a Fig. 1' of the drawings. The purpose of the variety of adjustments possible is to permit anice adjustment of the end gate to the different loads carried by the rack.

What is claimed is In anend gate for hay racks, an apertured channeled casting, formed with. an integral apertured head, adapted for engagement with the ends of the beams of the rack bed, gate standards provided with terminal pins adapted for adjustable connection with said casting and rods formed with angular split terminations for adjustable connection with the'head of said casting and with the JULIUS o. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

ANDREW SKOLAS, J OHANNA PAULSON.

fivecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0.

hereto affixed my signa- V 

